socket.io and session?

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This won’t work for sockets going over the flashsocket transport (it doesn’t send the server the needed cookies) but it reliably works for everything else. I just disable the flashsocket transport in my code.

To make it work, in the express/connect side, I explicitly define the session store so I can use it inside socket:

MemoryStore = require('connect/middleware/session/memory'),
var session_store = new MemoryStore();
app.configure(function () {
  app.use(express.session({ store: session_store }));
});

Then inside my socket code, I include the connect framework so I can use its cookie parsing to retrieve the connect.sid from the cookies. I then look up the session in the session store that has that connect.sid like so:

var connect = require('connect');
io.on('connection', function(socket_client) {
  var cookie_string = socket_client.request.headers.cookie;
  var parsed_cookies = connect.utils.parseCookie(cookie_string);
  var connect_sid = parsed_cookies['connect.sid'];
  if (connect_sid) {
    session_store.get(connect_sid, function (error, session) {
      //HOORAY NOW YOU'VE GOT THE SESSION OBJECT!!!!
    });
  }
});

You can then use the session as needed.

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